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TraVaughn Hicks has been making music since he was a young boy and his rapper uncle would record him singing on his songs.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 04:36
Tom Dolby talks the anxiety of class guilt, the elegance of sound, and the importance of sunscreen.
- Added: Sep 13, 2014
- Length: 16:09
Before the great speech maker Patrick Henry died, he credited a Presbyterian minister named Samuel Davies with “teaching me what an orator should b...
Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
San Franciscans love to garden, but a backyard is hard to come by if you live in an apartment. And the 36 city-operated community gardens have wait...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 07:25
South Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish has low unemployment — there are lots of jobs in offshore services. So many that there could be a shortage of l...
- Added: Aug 04, 2014
- Length: 04:46
Kelly Reichardt talks community, isolation, and wanting to blow up a dam.
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 11:30
Nicholas Wrathall talks starting at the end, putting his money where his mouth is, and why Gore Vidal could not be ignored.
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 19:56
The legendary Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokulea, is sailing around the world using the ancient art of wayfinding, navigating without instruments. Th...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 04:19
There are many ways to handle neighborhood flooding, beyond pumping stations and sewers. Some cities have realized that skate parks, of all places,...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:39
Charlie Paul and Lucy Paul talk managing media, meeting your hero, and getting under the skin of a painting.
- Added: May 10, 2014
- Length: 21:43
John Grisham is one of the best known authors in America, with his books selling over 275 million copies. Allison Quantz tells the story of an aspi...
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 2
Inside a huge ice rink in San Jose, where the Sharks hockey team practices, thirty-two men and women are laughing, yelling, and taking turns sweepi...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:31
Some people are not meant to stay on the ground, weighted down by gravity. Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham is one of those people. He’s used a wheelcha...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, and WTJU
- Added: Jan 20, 2014
- Length: 07:54
- Purchases: 3
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 13:47
- Purchases: 2
More than eight years after it flooded and closed due to Hurricane Katrina, the Circle Food Store on the corner of Claiborne and St Bernard Avenues...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 3
Preeminent Southern folklorist Bill Ferris has spent the last 40 years documenting the South in print, photography and film. His latest book, The S...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 15:59
- Purchases: 3
To enroll at West Brooklyn Community High School, students must buy in to a certain level of support and counseling. In exchange, the school promis...
- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 04:48
Updates on locked-out nurses, NYU grad students, and restaurant guides!
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 02:59
Lisa Fruchtman talks simple pleasures, honoring the past, and warming up to cold.
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 21:51
Fredrik Bond on instinctive acting, fighting the dark side, and the pleasures of an underdog city.
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 11:30
There are many places in the world known for their rice production — China, India and Japan to name a few. The New England state of Vermont is not ...
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 04:27
H.P. Mendoza talks subversion, creative boosting, and the haunting nature of memory.
- Added: Oct 27, 2013
- Length: 15:28
Bill Siegel talks politics, sports, and making history.
- Added: Oct 23, 2013
- Length: 23:17
Twelve dancers -- men and women all dressed in black rehearsal clothes -- move with fierce and graceful undulations through the space. They dance t...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 09:04
- Purchases: 1
Soup kitchens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District feed thousands of homeless and low-income people every day. These free meal sites serve as a v...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 17:19
